When Bad Movie Monday started to become a tradition, I knew we eventually had to watch this movie since my friend Lauren had been talking about for quite some time. Birdemic was inspired by The Birds and An Inconvenient Truth but other than being associated with people named Al the two films have very little overlap, and James Nguyen (the director/writer/executive producer of Birdemic) seems to have only taken away the worst of both.
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| Inspired by Hitchcock, Gore, and "Angry Birds". |
Unfortunately, the movie was terrible on a level that even I was unable to anticipate. The writing and the acting are spectacularly mediocre, without even being so bad as to be funny. This is particularly unfortunate since the needless exposition takes up such a large part of the movie's running time, with only two things occasionally breaking up the tedium. One is the speeches about how the birds are attacking because of global warming, accompanied by the kind of anti-pollution preaching that I had previously thought could only be written by a middle school student clumsily banging out their first persuasive writing paper. The other is the action scenes with CGI special effects so bad they can only technically called "computer generated" the birds look like crudely animated gifs made in MS Paint. They flap in place as extras die and the main cast stoically fires their guns (or frantically wave hangars) at them. Occasionally the birds dive bomb things and explode because... pollution I guess? Even worse, although the birds seem to be hawks the screeching call that announces their presence begins as a hawk's scream but then devolves into the squaking of sea gulls.
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| "Make do with what you have" was their policy both on choosing actors, and on arming them. |
I would say to avoid this movie at all costs, but it does have one barely redeeming quality- the sequel.
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